Maya VPS

I've been using Firefox since the early 2000s and still maintain a strong relationship with it. What keeps me from switching to a different browser is its massive add-ons library, it's compliance with W3C standards, and its nondiscriminatory attitude towards operating systems. Enjoy a great list of favorite, essential add-ons!

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For those running phpMyAdmin as an aid for navigating through MySQL, you must remember to secure both your MySQL and phpMyAdmin installations. This applies especially to a dedicated server. Looking through some access logs I encountered some strange visits.

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So, we've all done it. Mistyped a URL and gotten a page full of useless ads. Not until recently did I decide to check out omarmaya.com, a domain name I registered in July of 2008 which expired a year later. I had no intention of renewing this name, so I let it go, regardless of all the junk mail I received from various registrars asking me to renew it. I was a little surprised when I typed in my old domain name it returned a page full of advertisement links. I asked myself, "Who would want to squat me?" Maybe it's for a different Omar Maya; regardless, they are squatting a person's name.

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So now that we have our video we can open up Flash and start working on the player. Flash makes creating components easy with the Components and Component Inspector panels. We could write the ActionScript to generate these components from scratch or we could take advantage of these and drag and drop them to the stage.

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We're going to build a custom Flash Video Player using a combination of Flash's pre-defined components and ActionScript 3 with some of our own symbols. First, we need the video to be prepped and ready to be played on the web. For this, we're going to use the FLV format, which reaches 99% of internet-enabled desktops thanks to Adobe's Flash Player. The FLV format is ideal in it's reach level and quality-weight ratio.

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